Smt Padma Veeraraghavan's musical feast at Singpaore Naama Special Function: Swamy NammAzhwAr special Krithis and Nava narasimhan TillAnA

[Guest guest]

Dear BhakthAs :

 

I am enclosing a note form our dear Sri MadhavakkaNNan

of Singapore regarding last weekend's Sri VaishNavite

Nama sathsangam there in which my sister ,

Srimathi Padma VeerarAghavan had the BhAgyam

to particpate. We all know how the BhakthAs of

Singapore lead the way in serving the dhivya Dampathis

with ThrikaraNams (Manas , Vaak and SarIram ).

 

The highlight beyond rendering of krithis on

Srimaan NaarAyanan appears to be the arangERRam of

the krithis of Sri AlankAram Iyengar of Thirukkuruhoor ,

one of the greatest BhakthAs of Swamy NammAzhwAr.

 

Our dear Sri Rengarajan of Thirukkudanthai/Michigan

had unearthed these rare songs during his last visit

to Thirukkurhoor from a ninety year old SanyAsi (?)

serving Swamy NammAzhwAr and AdhippirAn .I request

Sri Rengarajan to brief us on the author and on how

he got hold of this rare manuscript.

 

The other highlight seems to be the rendering of

the Ahobila Nava Narasimha TillAnA composed by

Sow. Padma VeerarAghavan few years ago at Srirangam

in presence of Sri Nrusimha Paadhukaa Sevaka SriVaNN

SatakOpa Sri Vedantha Desika YathIndhra MahA Desiakn ,

the most revered Srirangam DakshiNa Gopura NirmAthA

at the DasAvathAra Sannidhi .

 

The RathnAngi Kaimkaryam for Lord DevanAtha PerumAL

of ThiruvahIndhra Puram has now started .The Lord

celebrated by Deva Naayaka PanchAsath , Achyutha

Sathakam (in PrAkrutham ) , Nava MaNi Maalai,

MummaNikkOvai et al and by Kaliyan is one

of the Mana Mohana Moorthys.The GodhA Priya

Committe of Chennai will spearhead this effort

as before for such kaimkaryams.

 

Those who wish to participate in this Kaimkaryam

are welcome to let me know.

 

Now that my sister is back from her extended

visit overseas , adiyEn will get the SamarpaNam

of the ThridhaNDam for our dear AchArya RaamAnujA

at His avathAra Sthalam of SriperumbhUthUr concluded.

This samarpaNam has been delayed unfortunately due to

some rework of the ThridhaNdam by the SriperumbhUthUr

Temple authorities to suit their requirements.

 

Thanks to all the Naama Members of Singapore

and in particular to Srimans Haresh BalasubramaNyan ,

Madhusoodhanans and MadhavakkaNNan for all their

support for this event .

 

NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa

Oppiliappan Koil Varadaachaari SatakOpan

>madhav.vasudevan

>Smt Padma Veeraraghavan's musical feast

>nama-singapore

>Cc: sgopan

>Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:15:28 +0800

>

>SrI:

>Dearst Srivaishnavas,

>The evening with Smt Padma Veeraraghavan was simply divine and grand.

>It was the feast to the ears. She sang as if she cuts is the load of

>butter with a knife.. so smooth and so mellifluous. It appeared so >easy to

sing.(When one attempts, he will know). The niRaval, gamakam,

>swaraprasthApam,the melody, variety in the speed of chosen songs, were >all

indescribable in words.

>That grand thOdi (koluva maragatha) was started off so beautifully >that

made us feel the KOdhaNdapaaNi standing in front of us gracefully. The songs

(compositions) of Sri Alankaram Iyengar of AzhwAr >Thirunagari (which she

had announced that they were composed in praise of Sri Nammazhwar in AzhwAr

Thirunagari by one Sri Alankaram Iyengar in 19th century and was handed over

to her through some sources few months ago asking her to set to raag and

thaaL for making them public. He had >composed these songs only on Sri

NammazhwAr like Sri Madhurakavi >Azhwar (dhEvu maRRaRiyEn..) Those songs

were extremely divine on Sri >Satakopar. She declared that due to Bhagawath

sankalpam, the music >compositions that she did on Sri Alankaram Iyengar's

works on >NammAzhwAr are staged first time at NAMA -Singapore only on

>Saturday.

>She also sang the thillaana (on Nava Ahobila Narasimhan), which she >had

composed then and there in front of SRimad Mukkur Azhagiya singar, >when His

Holiness had ordered her to sing a thillanna on Lord >Narasimhan. She

mentioned with moist eyes that it was all possible >because of His Holiness

Srimad Azhagiya Singar's presence.

>At the end of the concert, she said to the audience, "this is a group >of

Srivaishnavas. I would consider as Bhagawatha agnyA.. You just >instruct me

to sing any AzhwAr Pasuram that you wish; some one should >also mention a

raag in which that needs to be sung. I would do it for >His pleasure and for

yours..".

>For almost half an hour, She sang PAsurams in those raags, then and >there,

with thaaLam too. Mridangam (Sri Hari dAsan) too matched her >skills

perfectly. Thanks also to Sri Vallabhan for Ghatam. Thanks to >Sri Satakopan

mama for sending his sister Smt Padma here to Singapore. >She sang for 2-1/2

hours effortlessly. Wish you all were here with us >on Saturday.

>Smt Padma has been performing lots of kaimkaryams as you are already >aware

of. mANikka koNdai, Rathnaangi, mutthangi kaimkaryam for Lord

>Oppiliappan,TridhaNdam for Sri Ramanujacharya, and kaimkaryams for Sri

>Villiputhoor ..to name a few. She always donates all her earnings she >gets

from such concerts to perform various kaimkaryams, similar to >PeriyAzhwAr

and GodhA,(offering of Paa maalai and Poo maalai). >Naturally so, because

her sabha is also GodhAPriya kaimkarya sabha, >after all..

>Thanks to Sri Madhusudhanan and Smt Rama for arranging the event so ll

>and to Sri Haresh for organising.

>Regards

>Narayana Narayana

>adiyEn Narayana dAsan madhavakkannan